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- February 24th, 2024, 11:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New Giant Anaconda species discovered
- Replies: 0
- Views: 309
- November 23rd, 2023, 2:30 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Green Mamba on the loose in the Netherlands
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5766
Green Mamba on the loose in the Netherlands
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/22/euro ... index.html
The article did not say which sub species of Green Mamba it is
The article did not say which sub species of Green Mamba it is
- October 14th, 2023, 1:30 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Black Racer removed from Cape Cod home
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4367
- October 3rd, 2023, 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Autumn copperhead quite far north
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4302
Autumn copperhead quite far north
Here is an as they call it "Indian Summer" fall copperhead in New England
- September 26th, 2023, 1:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2606
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
I have not found a very effecient way of finding the hognose snakes. It seems to be rather hit or miss. If you find a way to consistently locate them, let me know. My efforts have been limited to just looking around habitat I know they are in and hoping for the best. It is hit or miss ,they were ex...
- September 24th, 2023, 12:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2606
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
We may have been at the same place lol I found a young hog and an eastern milk at a well known scrub Oak forest in central MA Friday. I found those within about 15 minutes then spent the next two hours wandering around aimlessly and finding nothing. It was not very warm and so the racers seemed to ...
- September 22nd, 2023, 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2606
Central Mass Hoggie
A baby central Massachusetts hoggie ,very cute
- September 3rd, 2023, 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2181
Re: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
"Black" Timber's are getting scarce in the Granite State NHherp ,Massachusetts is doing a bit better and Connecticut is really making a comeback. I talked with some people and they in the Berkshires where I live and they say that down in Great Barrington or Sheffield they have diamondback...
- August 30th, 2023, 4:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2181
- June 3rd, 2023, 3:12 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Maryland man caught selling African snake with no anti-venom
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4832
Maryland man caught selling African snake with no anti-venom
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/06/m ... slist.html
A type of Bush Viper without a known accepted anti-venom
A type of Bush Viper without a known accepted anti-venom
- June 3rd, 2023, 3:10 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2300
- June 2nd, 2023, 10:42 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2300
Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
https://articles.atholdailynews.com/Cop ... l-51176095
The Millers River in Athol Massachusetts is in central Massachusetts only ten miles from the New Hampshire border
The Millers River in Athol Massachusetts is in central Massachusetts only ten miles from the New Hampshire border
- April 5th, 2023, 1:20 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Cape Cobra's on a plane,no not a movie ,for real!!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4697
- November 11th, 2022, 8:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A much better video
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1973
Re: The Last Field Herping Video
Great video
Love the rattlesnake section,I have still never seen a venomous snake in the wild(very rare where I live) I envy you greatly.
One looked like a Mojave am I right and another looked like a North Pacific,and what was the really dark colored RS that was coiled up???
Thank you for sharing!
Love the rattlesnake section,I have still never seen a venomous snake in the wild(very rare where I live) I envy you greatly.
One looked like a Mojave am I right and another looked like a North Pacific,and what was the really dark colored RS that was coiled up???
Thank you for sharing!
- October 15th, 2022, 5:43 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Northern New Hampshire
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7854
Re: Northern New Hampshire
I went to the Franconian Notch in the fall of 2007 and saw a mother bear and three cubs.And then hit lake Willoughby in Vermont on the way home.
- October 1st, 2022, 10:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Re: Massachusetts Timber
Makes me wonder why Maine says it has no more Timber's which makes no sense because Maine has so much wilderness. Massachusetts is fairly built up but still has a Timber population and a couple hundred copperheads and Connecticut has a small timber pop as well but so many copperheads they are not e...
- October 1st, 2022, 9:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Elevation for Vipera latastei?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1705
Re: Elevation for Vipera latastei?
They thrive well in all environment's from mountain's to scrubland steppe to deserts
I would say just stay below the tree line because you want trees because trees have nuts and nuts attract rodents but this appears a very diverse snake.
I would say just stay below the tree line because you want trees because trees have nuts and nuts attract rodents but this appears a very diverse snake.
- August 23rd, 2022, 3:10 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dogs bitten in Connecticut
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4863
Dogs bitten in Connecticut
www.necn.com/two-dogs-recovering-after- ... n/2810030/
Two dogs bitten by Timber Rattlesnake in Glastonbury Connecticut
Two dogs bitten by Timber Rattlesnake in Glastonbury Connecticut
- August 11th, 2022, 2:10 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: (New Link Works) Timber King William Martin dies 80
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4711
(New Link Works) Timber King William Martin dies 80
www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/west-virginia-rattlesnake-expert-dies-bitten-timber-rattlesnake William Marty Martin the king of the Appalachian timber rattlesnake dies at 80 Sorry link is dead and could not get it right but it will come up if you google it. He studied the Appalachian timber from Georgia ...
- August 9th, 2022, 5:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Re: Massachusetts Timber
Makes me wonder why Maine says it has no more Timber's which makes no sense because Maine has so much wilderness. Massachusetts is fairly built up but still has a Timber population and a couple hundred copperheads and Connecticut has a small timber pop as well but so many copperheads they are not ev...
- June 12th, 2022, 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Re: Massachusetts Timber
That is a very different-looking Timber! Here in Louisiana they're always yellow or beige. I was impressed by the strange black one's from New Hampshire that are shown in Al Braswell's "Timber Rattlesnake Conservation Action Plan." Yours is close. Jeff They are so dark here it is true,the...
- June 10th, 2022, 4:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Re: Massachusetts Timber
No one has died from a rattlesnake here since 1793 so they don't cause many problems,the last snake death was in the 1970's when a very small child died from a copperhead. There are an estimated 500 or so rattlesnakes in the state mostly in the southern Berkshires but a few other isolated places.An ...
- June 10th, 2022, 4:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Massachusetts Timber
download/file.php?mode=view&id=2916
Ever seen a real Massachusetts native Timber Rattlesnake?
Here it is,I think this is from the Mt Everett area in the southern Berkshires
Ever seen a real Massachusetts native Timber Rattlesnake?
Here it is,I think this is from the Mt Everett area in the southern Berkshires
- December 9th, 2021, 1:33 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Massachusetts Alligator captured
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3249
Re: Massachusetts Alligator captured
Due to federal law stating that an animal that has learned to associate food with humans may not be returned to the wild.The alligator will live out it's years educating children on wildlife in some type of wildlife program the news has reported
- December 8th, 2021, 2:31 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Massachusetts Alligator captured
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3249
Massachusetts Alligator captured
In western Massachusetts the Westfield river runs from the east Berkshires down to the Connecticut river in Springfield. Over the past few months an alligator has been spotted many times in the Westfield by boaters and fishermen. Yesterday it was captured by a brave man in Agawam MA and he turned th...
- July 21st, 2021, 11:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: New Fungus killing snakes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7443
New Fungus killing snakes
Does anyone know anything about the fungus killing snakes in the eastern US?
I live in a region with a very fragile Timber rattlesnake,copperhead and Black Rat population and am concerned it could wipe them out.
I live in a region with a very fragile Timber rattlesnake,copperhead and Black Rat population and am concerned it could wipe them out.
- January 31st, 2021, 1:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cannibal Coachwhips?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3646
Re: Cannibal Coachwhips?
Were seeing more and more snakes eating snakes that weren't previously known for eating snakes
- December 7th, 2020, 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Wikipedia has always worked for me.
- October 22nd, 2020, 11:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5457
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Ok I understand ,around here people call that "road kill" or sometimes slang "road pizza"BillMcGighan wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2020, 3:29 pm A DOR is a herp that is "Dead On Road".
Yes there are AORs
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5457
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
I've not witnessed live ophiophagous behavior in Cottonmouths but have occasionally found water snakes in the gut of DORs. From the 1907 edition of The Reptile Book by Raymond L. Ditmars where he describes herping in a swamp in South Carolina during a drought : “The drying up of the water appeared ...
- October 16th, 2020, 10:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5457
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Just saw a Mozambique spitting Cobra eat a Puff Adder,no huge surprise in an Elapid eating a Viper,if the Viper eat the Elapid,a bit more surprising.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
- October 16th, 2020, 1:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5457
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Here in NC, I've seen a photo of a copperhead eating a corn snake (not another viper). I've also seen a couple of photos of black racers eating copperheads, and of course eastern kingsnakes eating various snake species. I use this info, whenever possible, to deter people from killing snakes indiscr...
- October 11th, 2020, 11:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5457
Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
So I saw a YouTube video of a cotton mouth killing and eating a rattlesnake,I'd guess a very small Eastern Diamondback.I couldn't get how to put the video into the post but if you go to youtube and put in "water moccasin eats rattlesnake it should come up. I have never heard of this before,has ...
- June 24th, 2020, 4:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3106
Re: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
There is supposedly some type of crocodilian species in lake Onota in Pittsfield Massachusetts.The Mass environmental police are staking out the lake in order to see if purported sightings are accurate. Being that Alligator's are not native anywhere near Massachusetts it would have to be an exotic p...
- April 14th, 2020, 4:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4180
Re: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
Thanks for taking the time, Bill. I just couldn't deal with the goofiness. It's a matter of evidence, not of opinion. cheers I certainly welcome any critical responses and I am not a professional scientist by any means and maybe it's just coincidence that there are similarities between snake specie...
- April 8th, 2020, 3:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping in New Hampshire
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3201
Re: Herping in New Hampshire
Hey NHherper, I am also A New Englander,I am from the Berkshire's.Your lucky to see that Timber,I have never seen a rattlesnake or copperhead in the wild.
Where about's in New Hampshire did you see that Timber,they say there is fewer than 200 left in N.H
Where about's in New Hampshire did you see that Timber,they say there is fewer than 200 left in N.H
- March 25th, 2020, 10:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4180
Snakes and the Alaskan land bridge
This is a post on the Alaskan land bridge theory,a belief I hold that North American snakes came from east Asia and crossed the Alaskan land bridge at a time when the climate was hospitable to snakes. North America has pit vipers and one species of Elapid,the Coral snake which are both found in east...
- February 26th, 2020, 4:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Odd colored Large Eyes Pit Viper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3215
Re: Odd colored Large Eyes Pit Viper
Another great video Lou,you are certainly couragous picking up that pit viper,likely wouldn't kill you but would have been a painful bite.
- January 18th, 2020, 3:01 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My scariest experience while herping caught on video
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5870
Re: My scariest experience while herping caught on video
Where's the video,I don't see a link.
- December 7th, 2019, 3:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Montana Milksnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2263
Re: Montana Milksnake
Milkshakes can do well in cold weather area's and l have seen them in Vermont.
I once had to call fish and game because there was a milksnake in a Vermont laundry mat.But when fish and game arrived the snake escaped under the driers.
I once had to call fish and game because there was a milksnake in a Vermont laundry mat.But when fish and game arrived the snake escaped under the driers.
- November 16th, 2019, 6:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Top 10 Venomous Snakes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2932
Re: Top 10 Venomous Snakes
Awesome video,never realized there are so many Krait species
- September 27th, 2019, 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Finding Snakes in the City
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11788
Re: Finding Snakes in the City
Great video,I really liked that Green Mamba or maybe it was a Jamison's Mamba,they did'nt show it for very long so it was hard to tell, in that snake room.Your awfuly brave I would have been in big boots in that tall grass.
- September 26th, 2019, 6:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Chinese Cobras Spit?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12951
Re: Chinese Cobras Spit?
Stereotypicaly African cobras are spitters and Asian Cobras are bitters but there are a few Asian Cobras that spit.I think Bangladesh has a spitting cobra
- September 21st, 2019, 4:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Chinese Cobras Spit?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12951
Re: Chinese Cobras Spit?
Great video I really liked that
- August 30th, 2019, 5:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18426
Re: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
Try Talking to the locals.stop at a store that sells outdoor supplies or a gun store.hunters know terrain.ask people at those types of stores,they may know where to go
- August 28th, 2019, 9:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18426
Re: SF Bay Area Rubber boa Herping Advice?
You got there habitat down for sure.you have done your research that's for sure.If you can find that habitat you should be successful.animals need a certain habitat and if you find the habitat you can usually find the animal or reptile.if your lucky enough to find someone here who knows Santa Cruz t...
- August 17th, 2019, 4:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Charina bottae distribution
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26905
Re: Charina bottae distribution
Rubber boas are officially known to live in Nevada as well as Wyoming,Montana and even British Columbia
- July 27th, 2019, 4:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19481
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
The Eastern Ghats run along India's Eastern coast, starting from the Khallikote mountains (the one we visited above) and going down further South into Peninsular India. The biodiversity here is very poorly documented compared to the Western Ghats. you read and see a lot on television about the West...
- July 26th, 2019, 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19481
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
I've heard of the Western Ghats but never heard of the eastern Ghats.where are they
- July 26th, 2019, 2:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19481
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
Nice photos looks like you had a fun trip.